Horror

How could Corbin possibly do what he was supposed to do? After Corbin's mother died, Maxim Moritz Grobian took him, penniless orphan that he was, under his wing and taught him the magic that was their heritage. Corbin owed Max everything, and now Max had given him a mission. Corbin was to bring Max's estranged daughter to New York. Lorelei was the only one, Max insisted, that could use the Heartstone, a crystal of phenomenal power, to keep mages safe from the Inquisitors that hunted them and allow mages to finally take their rightful place in the world.A worthy goal, thought Corbin initially, but now that he had actually met Lorelei all he really wanted to do was to run for the hills. Both afraid of hurting her and endangering himself, he needed to stay away from her, not befriend her to do Max's bidding. Besides, his instructions were more than to just befriend her. He was supposed to make her fall in love with him.There was no way, absolutely no way he was going to do that - not after what she had told him.

Teachers, parents, tutors: This book is intended as a learning tool for high school students looking to build their vocabulary. This book contains 1000 SAT words to build vocabulary as your child reads. These words are underlined and numbered throughout the text with definitions in the footnotes.Werewolves are roaming Northeast High, and Savannah Black is determined to hunt them down.When Savannah's academic rival mysteriously disappears, she enlists the aid of her two best friends, Dina and Nick, to solve the mystery. Football players with glowing eyes and razor sharp canine teeth may have fooled the faculty, but not Savannah and her friends. These brave students are determined to eradicate a clan of deadly werewolves who threaten to take over their school.When Dina disappears right before the big Homecoming Dance, Savannah and Nick jump into action to save her from the werewolf's paranormal curse. But will a straight-A student be able to master knives and silver bullets as easily as chemistry and calculus?Warning! This book contains pentagrams, bonfires in the woods, and 1000 SAT words and their definitions to challenge you.

A powerful witch, four devoted men, and a curse so wicked it could ruin them all.With two curses broken and another one knocking at her dorm room door, Willow Oliver can't seem to catch a break. Is the constant string of unfortunate events just a normal case of bad luck or something else?A week is all she needs to give the Reperio Stone enough time to recharge so she can locate her mother, but her plan is railroaded when everything takes a turn for the worst.With a man she loves being held by the darkness, and the unknown whereabouts of her mom, Willow has a choice to make-one that could change things forever.The best and worst are yet to come.Wicked Magic is the third installment in a new adult paranormal academy reverse harem romance series full of temptation, risk, and heart-stopping angst.

An element of suspense comes naturally to writer, Lori Taylor, in her collection of short stories, From The Mundane to The Macabre. Whether her characters find themselves in the midst of a haunting or are being terrorized by a demonic creature, the stories are brought to life by the detailed setting and protagonist responses. Lori draws on her varied experiences visiting a wide range of locations that highlight local legends, historical site with uncanny events, sacred Indian burial grounds, and regional myths to create her imaginative tales.Her stories include situations where characters are reminded of loved ones that have passed away, former homeowners that have died tragically, or evil spirits trying to disrupt and ''intruders'' presence. The language in all of the stories creates a colorful and vivid setting for the reader to immerse themselves in the story lines and eerie events. Often the author inserts whimsical interactions between a main character and alien or spirit world creature, lending levity to the plot. Other stories focus on the terror felt by the protagonist.This story collection is diverse and entertaining. Anybody that enjoys suspense and the supernatural will enjoy reading this compilation of spine-chilling tales. ~ Lorena Carlson - Athens, Ohio

Salt, ineffective. Prayer beads, no dice. Disinfectant-mildly effective. Miko's attempts to ward off the horrific spirits haunting her and her friend Hana ended mostly in failure. But Miko hasnt given up hope yet! One day, she'll be free! In the meantime, what other strange encounters await Miko...?

This summer is his last chance to win his first love. Wardenclave has always been a place of secrets and sway. For most of the year, the remote mountain village is closed off from the rest of the world, but each spring, they issue invitations to the most promising young reavers all over the world. Summer skill camps provide opportunities for the elite to train with the best. And by longstanding tradition, for teens of the In-between to evaluate the compatibility of their peers. Glint Starmark''s reputation as a matchmaker has been holding true for millennia. At seventeen, Mikoto Reaver is the youngest headman in Wardenclave''s history. He''s had very little time to adjust to his new role before their close-knit community opens its doors to children of pedigree, the specialists who will mentor them, an allotment of battlers, and a celebrity or two. Glint means well, but Mikoto won''t commit until he can speak to the only girl he''s ever loved. There''s just something about her.

Hailed as "the Anne Rice of the text message generation," Alys Arden''s sparkling debut, The Casquette Girls, entranced over a million readers online, and the series has since garnered a cult following around the world."A Southern Gothic love letter." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review, on The Casquette GirlsThe fourth volume, The Gates of Guinée, picks up where the third book left off with Macalister LeMoyne held hostage by the Ghost Drinkers'' coven and Adele willing to risk it all to save her father, even if it means opening a portal to the Voodoo Afterworld to hunt down the spirit of one of the greatest witches who ever lived.A trip to the Afterworld might be the end of the supernatural world.As the Ghost Drinkers seep into the crevices of the Crescent City, leeching the French Quarter of magic, the local witches are consumed with a new fight for survival. Adele has one chance to save everyone she loves, but it will mean breaking away from her coven and trusting a vampire.For the first time in four hundred years, Niccolò Medici feels on the precipice of finding his stolen grimoire. But in order to restore his family''s legacy, he''ll have to succumb to his darkest desires.New York transplant and first responder Isaac Thompson will stop at nothing to protect Adele, even if he has to give in to his Spektral magic to unearth the truth about Nicco''s monstrous past.For those who choose to pass through the Gates of Guinée, the rules of the Afterworld are simple: Don''t eat the food. Tell no lies.In a whirl of lucid dreams, fetish markets, and ancestral reunions, only those who bare their souls will survive this ghostly hunt, or else they''ll join the land of the dead permanently.Teetering on the razor''s edge between everything she desires and utter madness, only her heart and her magic can lead Adele back home... if only Callisto Salazar hadn''t stolen her Fire, and the most secretive one of them all hadn''t stolen her heart.

Johnny is faced with the thing he hates the most ... The dark. Can Johnny find the strength to be brave, or will his fear consume him.Type of book: Children''s picture book.Reading age::8-12

14-year-old Abbey has always been a spook magnet, but the summer camp her dad sends her to is something else. In addition to dealing with the troubled kids, clueless camp counselors, and spirits of the dead-yeah, they found her there too-a strange symbol keeps appearing at all the worst moments.Abbey is not a happy camper.Soon Abbey realizes that someone is trying to send her a message. The mystery catches her attention, and no one-alive or dead-is going to stop Abbey and her new friends from uncovering its secrets. This girl ain''t afraid of no ghosts.

Living dolls, vampiric warlocks, cursed plains, and haunted telegrams are just a few of the horrors unleashed in this, The Fourteenth Hour. In this breakout collection of horror short fiction, Brian Charles Alexander weaves tales of sorrowful terror, maddening curses, and horrific encounters with things not of this world. Viewer, take heed!

Arial Erics is the new girl in town, who just happens to now live a few blocks away from a spooky, old, condemned movie theatre .Everyone says the old place is haunted ...Some think the theatre was built on top of an old cemetery, where some of its occupants still lay just under the concession stand. Others think that a bunch of high-school kids were slashed to ribbons in the projector room by a maniac with a hook for a hand, and still many kids believe it is just a magnet for anything and everything spooky.Arial brushes these stories off as just a way to scare the new kid in town. However, when Arial starts having dreams about a particular movie-goer from several decades long past, she must discover the truth to a trapped spirit who has been waiting for the "End Reel" for far too long.

On a windy, stormy night, down a dark deserted road, you'll hear some scary sounds and meet some frightening figures! There's Captain Murderer, whose brides all meet a fearsom fate. And you'll find out how to deal with uninvited ghosts as well as what to do when a monster plans to make bedtime snack of you.In old tales and new, master storytellers Washington Irving, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Laurence Yep, Stephanie Calmenson, and others will take you on a spine-tingling journey from forests of Russia to the bayous of the American South and around the globe. All in all, it's a delectably ghoulish collection guaranteed to make even the stoutest hearts tremble with fear.

Having overcome their life-or-death struggle on Floor B1, Zack and Raydecide to split up and search for a path to the surface. Before long, Ray findsherself face-to-face with a man she knows all too well...

Dr. Henry Jekyll is well-liked and admired by his friends, but seems increasingly troubled and withdrawn from their company. Meanwhile, a mysterious and repellent character, Mr. Hyde, commits crime after crime. What hold can he have over the admirable Dr. Jekyll? With fun activities after the story, and online audio in both British English and American English. CEFR level: B1. 1200 headwords, 3594 words.

Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media. Nowhere is this tension more clear than in horror films for adults, where the demonic child villain is one of the genre's most enduring tropes. However, horror for children is a unique category of contemporary Hollywood cinema in which children are addressed as an audience with specific needs, fears and desires, and where child characters are represented as sympathetic protagonists whose encounters with the horrific lead to cathartic, subversive and productive outcomes. Horror Films for Children examines the history, aesthetics and generic characteristics of children's horror films, and identifies the 'horrific child' as one of the defining features of the genre, where it is as much a staple as it is in adult horror but with vastly different representational, interpretative and affective possibilities. Through analysis of case studies including blockbuster hits (Gremlins), cult favourites (The Monster Squad) and indie darlings (Coraline), Catherine Lester asks, what happens to the horror genre, and the horrific children it represents, when children are the target audience?